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Black Forest: Stories End, the final book in The Black Forest Trilogy, is out now at Smashwords and Amazon. To celebrate, Rainbow Award finalist Black Forest: Kingdoms Fall and Black Forest: Magicks Rise are currently 50% off on Smashwords. But there’s a sweeter deal for blog readers: 75% off Black Forest: Kingdoms Fall and Black Forest: Magicks […]

Venice On many streets of Venice, people cast shadows only a few, fleeting hours each day. Buildings so close, and ways so narrow, only the highest midday light penetrates its passages, bursting color in the masks and molded crystals displayed in shop windows. The rest of the time, Venice spends lost in its own shadow, […]

-OR – The Election of a Thin-Skinned, Racist, Sexually-Predatory Toddler Has Addled My Writing Brain (And, Oh Yeah! He’s Crazy Too!) We could have had it all, couldn’t we have? Human decency. The embracing of diversity. The embracing of each other. Truth. Kindness. Compassion. Instead, we have Russia meddling in our election, America’s racist, misogynist […]

Due to circumstances I probably could have foreseen if I really stopped to think about it – a conflicting deadline, a presidential election that could send me into a serious downward spiral if things take a turn toward the even more frighteningly wicked (VOTE AGAINST EVIL 2016!) – I am pushing the Black Forest: Stories End release […]

DISCLAIMER: This is about the musical The Color Purple. If you have managed to remain unspoiled on the details, don’t let me ruin it for you. Just go see it. ***** I did a thing a few weeks ago I have done a hundred times before. I sat down in the dark with a thousand strangers, […]

…Who Want to Talk About Girl-Girl Representation in the Media Okay, not desperately. At least, not yet. I just wanted to make a play on the Madonna movie title. Know which movie I mean? Awesome. All the better. I really am seeking TV and movie fans, though. I am working on a documentary, and I need interviews from the fan perspective. […]